(57) In a system comprising a digital camera-ready printer (10) which can print directly
from a variety of digital cameras (12, 14, 16, and 17), the printer (10) includes
a hot shoe receptor (31) to establish a convenient hot shoe link (23) between a digital
camera (17) and the digital camera-ready printer (10). The digital camera-ready printer
(10) includes a processor (50) that can identify the coupled digital camera (12, 14,
16, and 17) in order to instruct the digital camera (12, 14, 16, and 17) to transmit
the frames of digital image data. The processor (50) can also convert the format of
the digital image data to a predetermined image file format. The processor (50) of
the digital camera ready-printer (10) along with a display device (32) allows a user
to edit and manipulate an electronic image represented by a single frame of digital
image data prior to printing.
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